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Oct. 14, 2022 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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Stay Free with Russell Brand #013 - Trump Wants Peace - So Who's The Real Fascist?
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I'm going to go ahead and get the camera.
I'm going to get the camera.
In this video, you're going to see the future.
Ah, you've joined us, haven't you, for Stay Free with Russell Brand, live on Rumble, then in full on Rumble later, or now, if that's when you're watching it.
Just reading about Gandhi.
Yep, yep, that's what's possible.
Brilliant stuff.
Remember that the same divine light that inspired Gandhi is available Welcome to All of Us Now, accessible within.
We can determine our realities through personal choices.
May we be guided by the highest principle.
Today the theme of the show is Trump wants peace.
Do you remember that rally he was doing?
Those lovely rallies.
At it, there was a bit where he said, um, let's have peace, didn't he?
And, uh, that's not a fascistic perspective generally, is it?
How are our perspectives altering so radically, vacillating wildly?
It used to be, don't you remember when you grew up, that the people that wanted peace were the goodies, and the people that wanted war were the baddies, like literally in Star Wars and everything.
You said he's not a fascist.
Is that your position here?
Is he a fascist?
What do you mean by a fascist?
I mean, you let me know in the chat.
Because who cares what I think?
Me and my close family.
But we care about what you think.
Let us know in the chat.
What do you think?
Is Trump a fascist?
Who are the real fascists?
How is control being implemented on your personal consciousness?
You remember, of course you do, when Michel Foucault talked about biopolitics, that ultimately politics would take place in life itself.
Look at how our consciousness is manipulated and managed.
Look where our attention is focused.
Look at how... On YouTube the other day, we were going to do a video.
We did do a video.
You saw it.
If you're watching us on Rumble, you saw that video.
We did a video about that Pfizer executive saying we didn't do trials on transmission.
Now, we were about to put that up on YouTube, but we've had one strike!
Haven't we?
We've had a strike on there.
And we thought, we better not put it up, because we're getting all sorts of grief.
Hey, if you're watching this in the chat, look, people are saying Trump's not a fascist.
And people have given us a fiver to say, let's go, Brandon.
I don't mind saying things like that.
I like him.
Let's do his thing.
We've got some news about that guy, actually.
Obviously, in our country, England, the pound has, wait a minute, the Chancellor's been sacked, and it means that the pound has gone Up a bit.
So that's good news for the pound.
It's there now.
We just keep sacking people.
Just sack another one.
The bloody thing will be through the roof.
It'll be like that.
It'll just be peeping down.
It'll just be able to, like, upskirt the pound.
There it is, the saucy bloody thing.
Oh no, not that angle, Dan.
Oh, I can't see a side of a pound!
You've sacked too many people!
Side of a pound!
God, that was horrible, wasn't it?
Oh, God, yeah.
That was unpleasant quantums.
All right, Biden.
So, yeah, that's good to pound off a bit.
Biden says Putin totally miscalculated Russia's ability to occupy Ukraine.
Some of you will be old enough to remember something that got said about two years ago, where he said like he was going to really sort Putin out.
Have a look at this and just tell me what it makes you feel.
Note your stomach, your heart, your head, all of it, just as Biden says these things.
Because Putin knows if I am President of the United States, his days of tyranny and trying to intimidate the United States and those in Eastern Europe are over.
Do people actually mean it when they say stuff like that?
Like that international diplomacy, geopolitics between historic enemies, a nation like Russia that's gone through the Bolshevik revolution, executed their own royal family, somehow bought down Putin, a great mystic at the heart of power, and now, post the Soviet era, are reforming potentially with some imperial goals, although Aaron Maté, guest on the show later, says that Russia are not expansionist beyond former Soviet territories, hence the current conflict.
Do you think that a man like Putin would be intimidated, not by Joe Biden personally, I don't engage in that kind of tittle-tattle mudslinging, but by anybody that you go, oh no, this guy looks I'm going to stand up to him.
Look, he can't even replace one of the light bulbs.
There's only one of them working.
Oh God.
The guy can't replace his light bulbs.
I'll tell you what that'll be.
It's a dimmer switch.
And he's gone too low on the dimmer, the bloody thing's flicked off.
Oh no.
That's, yeah, that sort of grandstanding when you can't even illuminate your own backdrop
seems absolutely ridiculous.
Even a couple of years ago he looked a bit healthier.
Let's let him finish.
I'm going to stand up to him.
He's a bully.
Just like the President.
Because it looks like he's, he's not talking to camera is it?
It looks like they've just captured him saying that to someone.
Sorry, Joe, who are you talking to?
It's actually past your bedtime.
Go to bed.
Stop making these weird threats to Putin.
I don't think there's anyone there.
That's like a sort of an Amazon ring that he's talking to.
He's just meant to be making a simple delivery.
Gotten caught up in some international rhetoric, the poor sod.
And I know he doesn't want me to be President, but to tell you what, we're going to have
When I'm President, things are going to change.
That's delightful, really, isn't it?
Once again, recourse to the extraterrestrial observers who must look down and think, what is it that they're doing down there?
What are they trying to achieve?
Where are they going?
Let's have a look at Joe Biden now.
Things have got a bit worse, really, Ross.
Have they?
Well, he says things are going to change, but it's escalated to a terrifying war.
Let's have a look.
Mr. President, will you talk to us about Putin, sir?
You think Obamacare is coming, sir?
There's no point in running to a helicopter because a helicopter saves you so much time travelling by helicopter that the run to it, that's pointless.
Because like a journey that would take you 4-5 hours by car, in a helicopter, 15 minutes.
So that little jog there... It's pointless, wasn't it?
The level of scrutiny and self-consciousness that office must bring requires, I think, the kind of magnificent ego that Donald Trump brought automatically to it.
I guess you can't get into that position without a degree of egocentrism, even particularly, I suppose, as our culture is Predicated around materialism, individualism, we all believe that everything is outside of us, even on the most rudimentary level.
I'll be happy if I get this, I'll be happy if I get that.
No one thinks, my role in life is to let go of my own selfishness and find a way to make myself useful to everyone.
Be simply kind and compassionate.
That's not the prevailing mentality.
So I suppose you're gonna get a culture where presidents say things, well when I'm president things will bloody well change.
I was quite impressed that he was doing that run, though.
It's a good job he went on a stage.
Yeah, no, he'd have to run in the wrong direction.
No, the helicopter's that thing with the whirling blades at the top of it!
God bless you!
Maybe people just need to shout when they get him off a stage.
Just say, Armageddon's coming!
And then he'll do a runner.
Maybe that's the solution.
Yeah, if you just confront him with perhaps he's... What about that thing you said?
Are you going to make Saudi Arabia a pariah?
Boom!
Look at him!
He's died off!
He found his mark!
Capital attack panel votes to subpoena Trump.
What does that mean?
That he's going to be... Well, I mean, I can see what it means from those words.
It means he's going to be subpoenaed.
It means he'll potentially have to testify.
I mean, he's tweeted back.
He said, why didn't the on-select committee ask... I won't do it in his voice.
He won't have tweeted.
He will have truth social.
He's truth social.
You're absolutely right.
Not now.
Not until Elon's deal goes through.
Then you might get a tweet from Trump.
So he said, why didn't unselect committee ask me to testify months ago?
Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of the last meeting?
Because the committee is a total bust, he says.
The committee is a total bust.
Well, Nancy Pelosi, there's footage of her that day saying what she would do if Trump did present himself.
Let's have a look at that.
I'm going to punch him out.
That's all I know.
I'm waiting for this.
I suppose what it is, is that they're normal people.
That they're normal people that have to pretend to be unusual for spells when it's appropriate in order to justify privilege.
And then at points they say sort of mad stuff like that.
She's aware of the cameras.
She's not really gonna... No, and go to jail and then be happy.
I'll punch Trump, that's the first thing.
Then I'm off to jail now.
Oh no, I'm happy.
I'm happy, look.
Also, when she says punch, now I'll come to you as a fighting expert.
Yep.
When she says punch, she does this action.
That's not actually a punch.
What you've done there is, I mean, what is that?
Is that tap?
Chop?
Chop.
That's a kind of chop.
At best, that's a chop.
But them lot at the moment, yeah, they were gripped by terror, weren't they?
They're masked up from one another.
They're gripped by fear.
Of course, Nancy Pelosi does have some previous for violence.
Here she is carrying out a threat against a child, just to the side of her, who's potentially infringing upon a photograph, though we still don't really know what drove Nancy to hustle that kid so hard.
Flores claims Pelosi tried to shove her young daughter out of the way during her swearing-in ceremony last week.
Irritated by that child.
All right, so energy crisis could lead to more people making hazardous heating choices.
Insurer warns, like, people are going to use candles.
But candles aren't that hazardous.
Look, we've got one here.
Whoops, dead shit!
Oh my God, the whole place could go up!
There's a thatched roof in here as well.
So far, though, we're pretty safe, aren't we?
Yeah.
Not brought too much jeopardy to us, there's the old candle.
When we talk to Aaron Maté, we talk about how all of these things intersect.
The war between Russia and Ukraine, the ongoing support from NATO, the claims of Putin's unique status as a tyrant and dictator looking for a new Russian hegemony, the cost of living crisis, and indeed, most importantly, whether or not The institutions and elites with the most power can withstand even nuclear Armageddon.
Is it possible that given that crises usually benefit the most powerful interests in society, e.g.
2008, terrible crisis, ruins loads of people's lives, the richest people in the world get richer, 2019, pandemic, ruins loads of people's lives, Big tech gets richer.
Big pharma gets richer.
The richest people in the world get richer.
Is it possible that that could be chased right into the jaws of death?
Right into the fire and brimstone mouth of hell itself?
Let me know in the chat.
Let me know in the comments what you think.
Is this part of some dreadful master plan to annihilate the entire planet?
I don't know.
I sincerely hope not.
I was just getting into my stride.
Just getting used to it in this place.
We've got enough worries with that candle, haven't we?
Yeah, that could... Watch out for that.
Just keep one eye on it, is what I would say.
Camilla may not...
Camilla Parker Bowles, Queen now, may not wear a jewel-encrusted crown at the coronation because of its links to British colonial past.
That's the level of gestural politics that we live within.
They're trying to do sort of a toned-down coronation.
I'm not going to look at that crown though.
Is this crown too much?
Let's just wear a gentle tiara.
You can't mitigate the true meaning of monarchy.
Monarchy is about enshrining power and privilege.
Monarchy is about supremacy.
Monarchy is about privilege and elevation.
It's literally a coronation.
It's saying this person is better than everyone else.
Not that much better because the crown's not that bejeweled.
You can't mitigate that with gestures.
Do you want to know what they're going to do about it?
Less flash crown?
Palace officials are understood to be reviewing whether she should wear the jewel.
Options could include the removal of the diamond and its mount, replacement with a crystal replica, or Camilla could opt for another crown, because there's other crowns.
So there isn't an option at the moment of just giving it back.
Just give that bloody thing back!
No.
Wear a MAGA hat!
Wear a tinfoil hat!
Wear something like young Putin's wearing there for reasons that I don't even understand.
Sue B and Will there who handle your comments, keep your comments coming.
Why are you wearing that World War II helmet?
Well, I didn't actually decide this, but you know, we've got a theme going with me wearing...
Yeah, because you look like Lord Alfred Douglas, lover of Oscar Wilde.
You look a bit like, who else?
Putin, most obviously.
And now who else do you look like?
Apparently I look like Captain America, but not the good Captain America.
Not when he's sexy?
No.
When he's, when he's still all fragile?
Oh yeah.
You look like fragile... Yeah, you do look like...
When he was trying his hardest.
Who's made this remark to you?
I think it was Soobie actually.
Soobie said you look like... Yeah, I put it on for a laugh and Soobie went, you look like Captain America.
Before he's had the serum.
But you'd refuse to take that serum, wouldn't you?
What's in that Serene Giant taking that?
How do we know?
Who's making money off that stuff?
Of course he would, little conspiracy theorist.
There we go.
Let us know who you think he looks like in the chat.
I mean, which one?
Lord Alfred Douglas, former lover of wild?
Putin, as a youth?
Or Chris Pine, Pratt?
I never know which Chris they are.
There's so many Chrises.
Evans before he got jabbed up, jabbed up into a Superman.
And actually, interestingly, the Avengers are now allying with Pfizer, aren't they, for a new push now that Pfizer's products have to be purchased privately.
They're not going to be purchased publicly no more.
The government ain't going to buy no more.
So Pfizer and Marvel are teaming up to promote booster shots.
So watch out for that.
We'll do a story on that.
Get a magazine out of it though.
Huh?
You get a magazine out of it.
How do you mean?
Well, it's in a magazine.
Well, they're not doing nothing.
They've got a magazine.
Who's got the magazine?
Well, you can have a magazine with... What I'm saying is, it's not just about, you know, selling the vaccine, is it?
Oh, I see.
You get a magazine and also there's a positive affiliation between supremacy... You know like when you get a magazine and you get some free sweets or something?
And a booster.
It's that, innit?
Or like a Peppa the Pig sort of Pez head.
That's right, yeah.
Something like that.
Yeah, OK, fair enough.
You also get the magazine.
Russia's probably going to ban Facebook because they see it as a terrorist organisation.
Yeah, they do.
Fair enough.
Birth rate slump hints at Covid sex drought.
I don't know if people had more sex during Covid.
Apparently not.
All that proximity, if you get trapped you can't cope anymore.
People apparently were scared of the future, which had nothing to do with the news.
The future?
Well yeah.
That's everything that's not now or the past.
That's too vast to handle.
They were worried about what was going to happen.
Oh yeah, it's a scary thing, the future.
Trying to think about it would be my advice.
I think it's like in captivity.
You know, it's very hard to get a panda to have sex in captivity.
It didn't want to.
Have you tried that?
When I let it out into the garden though, it was well up for it.
Best trip to Beijing I ever had.
400 grand worth of meth hidden in pumpkins.
Johnny Depp unrecognisable as he poses for selfies.
How do you know it's Johnny Depp then?
He's unrecognisable.
Might not be him.
Could be anyone.
Usually they exaggerate, but they've got a point, maybe.
Hey, I'm Johnny Depp!
Well, anyway, I like Johnny Depp.
I accept Johnny Depp however he is.
There don't need to be no way for me to love you, Johnny.
That's what I'd say.
They always put those drugs in condoms.
What do you mean by that?
It's nothing to do with Johnny Depp.
Why are you saying that now?
The previous story.
You went back a story?
I went back a story.
You jumped back to the previous thing?
I didn't want you to feel bad about Johnny Depp.
Yeah, I love Johnny Depp.
So what do you mean?
Drunk in condoms?
They were inside the pumpkin.
And in a condom.
In a condom.
Yeah, the condom's protecting the drug, the meth, and the pumpkin is just, I suppose, a temporary place.
Who's doing these drug deals?
Scooby-Doo?
Go down to the pumpkin patch, we do a drug deal!
Do it down an alley or by a bridge or something!
Or in a fast food restaurant!
Go down to a pumpkin patch?
What is this?
What kind of drug deal are you doing there?
Halloween drug deals.
Right, on theme, on message, Christmas time, see you down Lapland baby, for some drugs, let's get high!
And then like Easter, chocolate egg, little nest egg, all full of drugs.
It's alright, a little Barney maybe?
Maybe, Gareth.
I don't know.
I've never done it, so I have no idea.
Well, I don't know if you've mentioned this to you, but I took a lot of drugs, and that's what makes me so approachable and a man of the old people, the drug people.
Let me know if you're on drugs right now.
It's bad.
It was a tough upbringing, was it?
You didn't mind how you got it, did you?
Huh?
You didn't know where it had been or anything.
You don't worry about that when you're a drug addict.
No.
Your standards drop.
You take it out of each other's mouths, all sorts of stuff.
You stick things up your bum.
It's all off on holiday.
But what about the drugs, though?
Well, sometimes, yeah, I would just simply do that because I couldn't get my hand on any drugs.
Luxury fashion house Valenciaga is flogging a high-vis bin man style jacket for a lot of money, almost laughing in the face.
There's a lot of inequality there.
It's so close, isn't it?
It's almost, that's not even a comment on a high-vis jacket.
That's just an expensive high-vis jacket.
Let's have a look at the Valenciaga fashion show where they trot that thing out with what look like knight's leggings.
You know, knights of old leggings.
Let's have a look at those guys.
♪♪ We aren't a parody in a way you'd think,
but we have parody a little bit because there's a bit of music from a British sitcom
called Steptoe and Son that will undermine anything in the fashion industry used correctly.
♪♪ -♪♪
They should be made to use that music.
They should be made to use that music at fashion shows so that they can understand how senseless it is what they're doing.
Once in the same week, I went to Africa to do something at this British charity called Comic Relief.
I went to a place in Uganda, I think, and I was on a rubbish dump where children were foraging in the rubbish and there was all sorts of sex crimes and gang stuff going on there.
And they told me that this was the cradle of civilization where most archaeological evidence suggests humankind sprang from this region.
And as I had that explained to me, I thought, this is it.
This is the end of the world.
If anywhere is experiencing this much devastation and poverty and suffering, there's no hope for us.
And then a week later, because I was being a celebrity... Oh yeah.
I was in Paris Fashion Week.
Did the kids know?
Did they appreciate it?
My kids, the African kids.
I don't dare mention it to them, Gareth.
I was like, I was off to Paris.
Listen, this looks terrible, all this.
They find like bottle tops and that.
Give me some of those!
And then the next week I was in Paris Fashion Week watching like a John Galliano show where there were these bubbles filled with smoke.
My, my, I couldn't hold it together that I'd had these two experiences so close together, that on one planet, those things were happening.
Like, if it was a human individual, it would be someone whose face was amazing and beautiful, but their ass was hanging out, or they had cancer throughout their abdomen.
We're not living in a congruent reality, and on some level, we feel it.
I suppose that's what, as I said before, the ridicule of Joe Biden is about, is his evident ineptitude as a communicator makes it obvious that it's a type of fear.
And if you create a situation where what is most prized is people being able to communicate well or perform well, then you're gonna get those kind of figures rise up.
And someone like Trump, who when we speak to Aram Ma'ay in a little bit, you'll be informed, apparently made decisions that were, that actually advanced the likelihood of conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
Even Obama did deals in 2014 that made this situation worse.
Trump did deals that made that situation worse.
But, you know, both Obama and Trump were, in their own ways, very kind of beautiful, even in extremist politicians.
Great at rhetoric, great at talking, somehow symbolic of a particular set of cultural values, or even beyond cultural in the case of Trump, I sometimes feel.
Energetic!
Energic!
There's a sort of a mad polarity of glibness And because he's such a berserker, such a bull in the china shop, you know that mentality of my enemy's enemy is my friend.
Even someone like me, who, like, my primary position is a mistrust of authority, anti-establishment thinking, breakdown power, decentralised, free people wherever possible to be who they are as individuals and as a community.
Still, I find someone like Trump, who is allied to big business and corporatism and individualism in an extraordinary way, I still found it appealing.
Get those lights off!
just like this guy's smashing up this shit it's all gone proper mental have a
look at him like this is what this is how Donald Trump reacts if he's not
happy happy with lighting conditions Off! Turn them off!
They're too bright!
Turn them off!
It's nice sort of energy to feel.
Turn them off!
They should just put that out as public information now.
They're too bright!
Turn them off!
Yeah, they are too bright.
That's how to reduce your energy bills.
Get them off!
Use a candle!
Be careful of it!
Don't burn the house down!
It's reassuring, that kind of certainty.
Who needs doubt?
I once heard that the mental condition psychosis is defined by certainty and neurosis is defined by doubt.
The psychotic is certain, the neurotic is doubtful.
Oh my God, oh my God, what do I do?
Oh Jesus!
I will kill you!
Fucking hell!
We all know psychosis when we're confronted with it.
But I know a bunch of you lot love Trump and I know loads of you don't love Trump.
Me?
I love you whoever you are.
And what I'm interested in is a deep excavation until we get to the truth of who we all are really.
Individual points of attention operating within a limitless whole that can create new realities through our imagination.
That might sound highfalutin but all reality is a consequence of imagination or cultural reality.
Not a tree, you know.
I guess that's actually there by its own accord.
Anyway, Gareth, we're not here to discuss whether or not there is a deep ontological truth underlying nature, or are we?
We can do whatever we want, can't we?
Actually, we can do whatever we want.
There's no barriers to that, certainly.
Should we do this thing?
Well, we did a...
Well, we've got an item.
Here's the news.
No, here's the fucking news.
And we did it about Trump calling for an immediate peaceful end to the war in Ukraine at a recent rally in Nevada.
Some analysts estimate that your country, if you're American, spend $110 million a day in the Ukraine.
Let me tell you a few more things about the military.
As you know, I'm up all night.
Hang on.
Oh, not again.
Burning the midnight oil.
I've always seemed a bit tired.
A bit irresponsible to burn the midnight oil in an energy crisis.
Got it from Saudi Arabia.
Done a special deal.
The Pentagon spent 14 trillion after 9-11.
Up to half of it went to for-profit defence contractors.
7 trillion of it to, like, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, all them guys.
You see them on the telly, on CNN, going, I think war's the only way.
Why do you think war's the only way?
Dunno.
Like, got a job, a company, makes weapons and that.
Oh, but they don't ask that question, do they?
They don't.
How are you feeling about the strike, Galm?
You know, the strike?
Which one?
The YouTube strike.
Oh, that one.
I'm doing that with Gandhi's face.
Sorry, mate.
No, it's the wrong message.
It's non-violence.
You'd have hated that.
What was, like, the YouTube strike that we had?
Do you feel like it's bad?
Well, it's not ideal.
Why are we getting a strike?
One strike for making a mistake.
We said, by mistake... No, it was his fault, that little bastard over there.
Little Captain America before the vaccine.
Said, he said, like, oh yeah, ivermectin, they've clinically trialled it now.
We went, oh right, cool.
But actually, what it said on the government website is we're clinically trialling it at the moment and subject to these clinical trials, we would recommend it as a treatment.
We apologise for it.
But we've still got a strikey-strikey.
So yesterday, instead of putting up our video about Jane Small, the executive at Pfizer, saying to Rob Roos, like he's Dutch, isn't he?
So beautifully blonde.
So much thick, coarse, lovely Dutch hair.
Yeah, almost unbelievably blonde.
You're so blonde.
What have you got that lovely blonde hair for?
Blessed.
Blessed with blonde hair.
That's a blessing.
I'd like to look down at his scalp.
I'd like to see how close those follicles are to one another.
They're bunched up!
Like thick lips!
Barely a gap.
Barely got quit now, you could get a right handful of that stuff.
Anyway, like we did a video where we said, hold on a minute, I was under the distinct impression that there was a general sense that the vaccines were going to prevent transmission.
And now everyone's acting like that weren't happening.
Like Rachel Maddow didn't go get the vaccine, stops with you.
Like Joe Biden said, pandemic of the unvaccinated.
Even our man Trump, he loved it.
Beautiful vaccines, I made beautiful vaccines.
Well that's because he invented them.
I invented fantastic record time.
Like, he really took a lot of credit for those things.
But now, there's very little to suggest that it stops transmission at all.
So we didn't put our video on YouTube.
You can only watch it on Rumble.
Have a look at it, and for God's sake, rumble it.
Rumble it like you mean it.
Don't half-arse rumble it, because the rumbles, they help us.
They surge us to the forefront.
Anyway, we'll be talking about that and showing that video.
That video is already up on Rumble.
It's on Rumble.
It's on Rumble.
It's the only place you can watch it.
It's the only place we're allowed to say it.
I don't want us to be regarded as crackpots though, Gal.
Absolutely not.
Because I want us to be regarded as a sort of shamanic truth tellers trying to hold together the polarity of chaos And order.
Acknowledging you can be humorous about serious subjects.
John Cleese says people mistake solemnity for seriousness.
You can be stupid about the most serious things in life.
Children.
Death.
Marriage.
These are all things that you have to joke about.
Solemnity.
Being solemn.
They do that to sort of take the joy out of life.
Yeah, also I think the issue with the video we had is that it goes against YouTube guidelines.
It doesn't mean that the information is false.
Right.
YouTube guidelines.
And YouTube guidelines, as it says explicitly, mirror the WHO and local health authority guidance.
And the WHO, guess who funds it?
Before you can put it in the chat, before you can put that in the chat, I'll tell you.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are the second biggest funders of the WHO.
So do you want a regulatory body with that much authority, not even the explicit authority within their remit, but tangential authority taken on by big tech?
We can't pretend anymore that democracy is a real thing.
It's out of your reach.
You can't do anything.
You can't do anything.
Years ago, there was no point voting like that.
I was being a bit glib, a bit blasé, a bit laissez-faire, a bit insouciant.
But the fact is, I was BAM right.
Weren't I?
Yeah, some people didn't think so.
They was wrong!
They was BAM wrong.
Oh yeah, but people died.
Yeah, that's why it SHOULD... I didn't say it SHOULDN'T mean anything.
I said it DOESN'T mean anything.
Oh look, he's getting all riled up again.
It SHOULD!
That's the fucking pulpit.
Oh no.
I've been watching too many Hitler documentaries.
Oh God.
Not, you know, like, not...
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Trump wants a peaceful end to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The bloody fascist.
What is fascist again?
What is Trump up to with these rallies?
Is he going to run in 2024?
Who knows?
Anyway, most recently, his most bold transgression is that he said that there should be a peaceful solution in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Let's have a look at what that fascist Trump said now, the peace-loving fascist pig.
We must demand the immediate negotiation of a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine or we will end up in World War III and there will be nothing left of our planet, all because stupid people didn't have a clue.
They didn't have a clue.
Clue.
I think what he's saying is difficult to argue with.
We are engaged in a conflict, a proxy war, some have said, between the United States and Russia, both of whom are nuclear powers.
And it's not that long ago there was a contentious long Cold War, the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
led to two polarised powers and you know in the 80s and 90s the Eastern Bloc somewhat
crumbled, Russia reformed, now Putin has risen to this position of supremacy and many people
say and doubtless it's true that he's the kind of person that would be able to run a
mighty nation like Russia and would have the kind of imperialist underpinnings that you
would anticipate.
Doubtless this war between Russia and Ukraine has complications.
Doubtless the war between Russia and Ukraine is causing a humanitarian crisis.
But once again we find ourselves in a position where it's left to Donald Trump to say things that other people should be saying.
Donald Trump is saying there needs to be a diplomatic solution or we might find ourselves in a nuclear war.
Do you not think that that's a legitimate point?
Do you not think that should be utmost in your considerations?
In this instance, you've got to be grateful that there's someone with a pulpit saying, I don't want a nuclear war, thanks.
They don't understand.
They really don't understand.
I rebuilt our military.
He's got sort of a way of talking that makes you literally imagine him doing stuff to a tank and sewing uniforms and coaching people over those walls that the Marines have to climb.
He's got a brilliantly solipsistic and wonderfully raw narcissism and it shows you that there is a dearth of viable political alternatives, that that seems like the most attractive option.
Rather than someone that's, you know, doddering about, hopeless, that spent their entire career taking corporate money that can't deliver, that says they're going to release people from prison that aren't in prison, that's the cannabis story, that says they're going to control drug prices and we beat pharma this year in a way that didn't make no difference to pharma.
We're going to make Saudi Arabia a pariah.
We're just going to carry on business as usual with Saudi Arabia.
If that's what's normal, then anything alternative to that is going to seem reasonable.
Now if war becomes normal, if that's the assumed position, we're in a war with Russia.
We're going to continue that war.
Oh, this seems a bit like what went on in Iraq, crossed with what went on in Afghanistan, a perpetual war that's beneficial to the military-industrial complex.
We can't keep promoting to the forefront of our culture adversary and condemnation of the other without looking at what our own political positions are.
I rebuilt our nuclear power.
They don't understand what they're dealing with, the power of nuclear.
They should understand the power of nuclear.
I mean, we've all seen the films and the image.
Former United States President Donald Trump has called for an immediate peaceful end to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
That seems okay.
I hope there are not American talk shows now saying, Donald Trump's been at it again, that crazy cuckoo son of a bitch asking for peace.
Trump's remarks come after Joe Biden's warning over the risk of nuclear Armageddon.
Let me present you with an idea.
Have you been coached into a state of idiocy?
Because when Joe Biden says, if things don't change, we're on the brink of Armageddon, he's the president of the United States of America.
He is in a position of samophoria.
He's not a news reporter, is he?
Like, oh, no, look what's happening.
Russia is going to be like, well, why don't you change tact?
Why don't you do something different?
Why don't you change the shape of the negotiation?
You're not like a bystander unless, of course, you sort of Are.
Unless, of course, the office of president is a sort of theatrical role.
Unless Joe Biden is a kind of puppet.
Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments what you think.
Why isn't Joe Biden saying, look, the way things are going with Russia's imperialist intentions, it looks like we could head to a nuclear war.
That's why I, as your president, will...
I assure you right now, and ensure that this situation isn't going to head towards an apocalypse, because obviously, even though there's lots of complexity here, it's pretty obvious, even to a bloody idiot, that the worst of all possible scenarios is a nuclear armageddon.
I can't think of a worse one.
Like, what would be worse than that?
Like, also, we blew up Saturn as well.
Also, the concept of God is gone now.
Also, sub-molecular stuff.
I mean, like, a nuclear war, that's literally The doomsday scenario, isn't it?
Compared to nuclear Armageddon, which we're all sort of not properly factoring, anything is favourable, isn't it?
Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments.
I hope I'm not simplifying this, but some things do seem quite simple, like end of world, not end of world.
I mean, that's relatively binary, isn't it?
Biden told Democratic donors in New York that for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat from the use of nuclear weapons if things continue down the path they're going.
He sounded like he sat on a porch chewing a bit of straw.
He should be in there going, right, let's not go down this path anymore.
Let's change direction.
Because, you know, I don't really want to be the President of the United States that presided over the end of the world.
That might be a bit of a blot on the old copybook.
During an interview on Saturday morning's Real America's Voice, a right-wing network, Trump accused the US and its leadership of goading Putin into waging a botched invasion of Ukraine on February the 24th.
They actually taunted him.
If you really look at it, our country and our so-called leadership taunted Putin.
Trump said, I'd like to hear him say that.
They taunted him.
They taunted Putin.
They actually taunted him.
I would listen.
I would say, you know, they're almost forcing him to go in with what they're saying.
The rhetoric was so dumb.
Trump did not provide any examples of how the US or President Joe Biden taunted Putin or what the supposedly dumb rhetoric was.
Eh, he's Trump.
Earlier in the interview, the former president claimed that the war between Russia and Ukraine would never have happened if he'd won the election and served a second term.
He's always making these claims.
Ukraine and Russia would not be fighting, Trump claimed.
It doesn't mean they'd love each other, but there's no way they'd be fighting and there's no way Putin would have actually gone in.
Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments, do you think this war would have happened if...
Trump had been president.
In the build-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Trump claimed, I knew Putin very well.
I got along with him great.
On talk shows now, they're going, yeah, you certainly did.
He liked me.
I liked him.
I mean, you know, he's a tough cookie.
Got a lot of the great charm, a lot of pride, loves his country.
He sees himself as a couple of mates, doesn't he?
A couple of mates running countries.
But what's all this costing us?
And where is the money going?
And when I say us, I mean US.
So that's not us at all, because I don't think you can tell from my accent.
I'm not from there.
Some analysts estimate the true figure of the U.S.
commitment to Ukraine is up to $40 billion in security assistance or $110 million a day over the last year.
Is that money well spent?
Can you see anything in American cultural life that you would prefer to have that money spent on?
Does it surprise you that there's an easy highway for that money to travel towards the military-industrial complex, and some would say to the military more generally, and it's more difficult to get those resources into American infrastructure and also into the lives of ordinary American people?
The relentless stream of funding announcements in the absence of any public discussion of what the US is doing to seek an end to the conflict has signalled to critics a recognition that there is no end in sight to the war and that the US is committed to supporting Ukrainian defence efforts for the long haul rather than pursue a negotiated end to it.
Now of course what Noam Chomsky thinks is the most likely outcome is the absolute annihilation of Ukraine.
What recent history suggests is the American military-industrial complex would like an ongoing entrenched war where tax expenditure can be diverted towards weapons manufacturers etc.
I don't know enough to say for sure that that's the desired outcome.
But what I would say is a factor that ought to be considered is that if Putin is a madman or a strategist, whatever he is, he's got nuclear weapons.
So it seems like a bit of a risky game.
I mean, I love a gamble, but do you gamble when your whole life and the planet's future is contingent upon it?
Let me know in the chat.
Let me know in the comments.
The US is really preparing for a long war.
It's actually preparing for endless war in Ukraine, said Stefan Semler, co-founder of the Security Policy Reform Institute.
The US government has pumped more money and weapons into supporting the Ukrainian military than it sent in 2020 to Afghanistan, Israel and Egypt combined, surpassing in a matter of months three of the largest recipients of US military aid in history.
Up to half of the $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since 9-11 went to for-profit defence contractors, a study found.
That's not my word.
That's a study.
That's $7 trillion to defence contractors.
Now, are you beginning to see what the motivation might be for not immediately curtailing this war and coming to peaceful terms?
Do you think that in a capitalist system with a strong military-industrial complex, That spend a lot of money on lobbying, that have a lot of people in Congress that own shares in those organisations.
Do you think that that seven trillion would have any influence?
Because we're not talking about a Dalai Lama here.
We're not talking about someone who thinks that the material world is an illusion and what matters is the spiritual world.
I don't matter what's happening out there, it don't really affect me.
We're talking about a financially oriented system, aren't we?
So, probably is a factor, isn't it?
Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments what you think.
The Ukrainian news outlet Ukraininska Pravda reported that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson used his surprise visit to Kiev... Surprise!
...to pressure President Zelensky to cut off peace negotiations.
Surprise!
Listen, cut off the peace negotiations with Russia.
Oh, yeah, but surely you don't want people to continue to die.
Surprise!
I do.
To cut off peace negotiations with Russia, even after the two sides appeared to have made tenuous progress towards a settlement to end the war.
The British government has become an obstacle to peace in Ukraine by encouraging the continuation of the war through huge arms shipments and incendiary rhetoric.
Oh, oh, you think arms shipments and incendiary rhetoric is likely to increase war?
Those arms shipments and incendiary rhetoric were for a surprise birthday party.
Lindsay German, the convener of the UK-based Stop the War Coalition, said in a statement, although I added the bit about it being a surprise birthday party, So there you go, it seems there are a lot of vested interests in keeping that war going, and the only voice advocating for peace in a meaningful way within the mainstream media, even though let's face it, he's somewhat marginalised, is Donald Trump.
So at what point do you accept voices advocating for peace, wherever they come from?
What do you want?
Nuclear war or your pride?
Nuclear war or increased profits for the military-industrial complex?
What do you want?
This is a time where we have to ask ourselves some pretty serious questions.
I'm asking them to you right now.
Let me know in the chat.
Let me know in the comments what you think.
I'll see you in a minute.
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The dude.
No, he's the fucking loser.
We done a poll.
The poll was, do you think Trump would have ended the war in Ukraine?
Was that what the poll was, Suvi?
Well let's have a look at that poll.
What was the poll?
The Ukraine war would have happened if Trump was president.
Look at this.
You responded on that poll.
We received 20,000 votes.
Everyone says nope.
Most people say nope.
It wouldn't have happened.
The nopes say... Now that's democracy.
You could use... Couldn't we use this technology for decentralised power?
Couldn't you be running your own communities?
Couldn't budgets be granted to every community?
People run their own communities according to their own values and it wouldn't matter if people wanted to do things differently.
Just a thought.
Mang!
1982.
Fascism is about making people of one mind.
The mind decided by the government.
Though nowadays it's more likely Twitter and Google and Facebook decide.
I like that, Mang.
Hey, who church gigging thing?
Why do you keep saying, stop being silly?
Is it church gigging that person?
I'm trying my hardest over here to come up with fine advice.
My brain, my choice.
Organisations were created for diplomacy and not war.
Judy Denmark.
That's funny because it's nearly Judy Dench.
Yes.
Trump is not a fascist, he's a grifter who is only out for himself.
That probably makes him less dangerous than the real fascists.
Jeff Devine.
My son's a US Marine.
Respect.
Trump had the Marines closing down military bases and was bringing home the troops, and that's a fact.
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I had a brilliant conversation with him.
Did the US and the UK sabotage the peace deals?
Is there a diplomatic solution available?
foreclosing on the idea of a peaceful solution.
And if we are, does that mean it's going to be one of those sort of Afghanistan wars that just goes on and on forever?
Or one of those wars like in Iraq where it leads to sort of terrorist groups going on the rise?
Or is it going to be like a terrible nuclear war because Russia are a former superpower with incredible access to powerful military equipment?
Yeah, well the one thing linking all those scenarios is... Go on.
Well, the military-industrial complex making a lot of money.
Funny you bring that up because... Go on, have you got a fact?
I mean, I'll yield to your facts.
Here's one.
Lockheed Martin, a type of company that makes weapons and that, got $75 billion from taxpayers.
That's your money that you worked for.
I hate that idea, tax, don't you?
I mean, look, I want to help people.
Hospitals, schools, roads, love it.
Lockheed Martin?
Huh?
Lockheed Martin?
They're having half of it, aren't they, the bastards?
Look at this, the average taxpayer in America contributed two grand, that's £2,000 in your money, dollars, 2,000 bucks, to the military last year, and more than $900 of that went to corporate military contractors.
So you're giving them that money directly.
That means some of the time you're at work, you're just working for Lockheed Martin on the sly.
I don't know if I like that.
Well, I've got a little bit of... It's economic subterfuge.
It's exactly that.
So, listen, this is by CBS.
A recent CBS news report suggested that only around 30% of the weapons sent by the West actually make it to the front lines.
This is with regard to the Ukraine war.
Where'd they go then?
Well, I'll tell you.
Where could they go?
They're not on the front line.
So, here we go.
Jonas Omen, the founder of Lithuanian-based organisation supplying the Ukrainian military, tell the American News Network that getting the weapons to the troops involves navigating a complex network of power lords, oligarchs and political players.
It's like a sort of a game show.
You've got to get past the power lords, and then the oligarchs, and then YAY!
The weapons are on the front!
Oh, no, they're neo-Nazis.
Oh!
Politics is so complicated!
Yeah.
Because there are, of course, neo-Nazi divisions in Ukraine.
Unfortunately so.
It's a shame, isn't it?
Got all this trouble and that flag in the window.
It's okay, though, because Facebook allow you to support Nazis.
Good Nazis.
Facebook are fine with that.
That's so weird, isn't it?
So there is no moral centre.
I suppose the issue here is no one's got any principles or real values, only the pursuit of an agenda and objectives.
Principles and values, by their nature, cause you to make sacrifices.
If there are no sacrifices being made, probably you don't have any principles.
I once done a course on writing, and the bloke who was teaching, I done a course on writing.
Oh yeah?
Yeah, I had to.
What did they teach you?
He was alright.
He was played by Brian Cox in Adaptation.
He's called... My mind doesn't work in this type of way when I'm speaking live.
You lot know who he is.
Anyway, Bob McKee.
He's amazing.
And Brian Cox played him in the Nicolas Cage movie.
adaptation which I watched while I was staying at Nicolas Cage's house.
Oh my God.
Nicolas Cage borrowed me a house.
Yeah.
I did a film with Nicolas Cage.
I was playing God, I think.
Brilliant bit of acting by me.
And anyway, Nicolas Cage said he had a house in Glastonbury and he was, you can borrow it if you like.
And like, you know, people sometimes don't mean that, but I went, I will borrow that house in Glastonbury.
Did he go, shit.
Oh no.
And then I did borrow it and I went and stayed there for about six months.
What?
Then they had to ask me to go.
During the time I was there, I watched Nicolas Cage movies to immerse myself fully.
What's it from his collection?
Does he just have all his own films there?
I don't know.
I might have gone... Was it Blockbusters?
Like, I don't know.
I got my hands on them somehow.
But it was good.
I watched the one where he's like, BEES!
That, all of it.
I like Nicholas Cage.
He's brilliant.
I think he's amazing and mental.
Brilliant actor.
And a lovely human being, actually.
Kind.
Gave me a house for six months.
Who does that?
Anyway, Brian Cox, who's in that film adaptation, he plays Bob McKee.
Bob McKee, when he teaches his course, says, if you want your heroic character to demonstrate love, The only way you can have your character demonstrate love is through sacrifice.
Anything else is affection.
So if you're trying to get, you know, and I thought that's true in life also.
It's true in life also.
Unless you're willing to sacrifice, you ain't got nothing.
Sacrifice.
What are you willing to give up?
I suppose that's why we're kids, isn't it?
You think, would you die for your children?
Of course you would die for your children.
What else would you die for?
In a sense, those kind of values have been eroded.
We're sort of like little blobs in a honeycomb now.
Like royal jelly.
Like little larvae just being imbibed.
Mad, meaningless entertainment distracted from dignity and honour and true power.
What are you looking for, Will?
What's caught your... There I am!
Told ya!
Told ya I was in a film with Nicolas Cage.
Looming behind him.
That's what I done.
I loomed at him.
Nick, could I borrow your house, mate?
Oh no, shit, I already said he could.
Oh no!
I'm gonna have to come through with that.
Yeah, we made that film in Morocco and all he had was a bunch of CIA people looking after him.
Because Morocco is like a Muslim country, everyone was double on edge.
The American folk, hey, it's gonna be terrorism around every corner.
You should've seen them lads wrapped around him.
So what I tried to do was counterbalance that by going around giving sweets to people in a suit.
You know, it's like a bazaar in Morocco.
That was basically all of my experiences.
You did that.
You just wanted them to love you, didn't you?
Yeah, I love to be loved.
I'll tell you what.
Who do I want to be loved by?
The Outsiders.
That's all I wouldn't love in me.
You should see me in a prison.
You're right, lads.
You don't deserve to be here.
No, we don't.
Come here, have a sweet.
Go on.
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What was you going to tell me?
Well, I was going to tell you a little bit more about the weapons.
Something about that war.
About the weapons, which will lead us into... The tricky little swines.
Yeah, so there is really no information as to where they go.
Donatella Rivera, a senior crisis advisor with Amnesty International, tells CBS... Where are they going?
70%?
Is it you saying that 70%?
Only 30% makes it to the front line.
All these weapons, they're not even getting there!
Where are they going?
What is really worrying is that some countries that are sending weapons do not seem to think that it is their responsibility to put in place a very robust oversight mechanism.
A US intelligence source told CNN in April that Washington has almost zero idea what happens to these arms, describing the shipments as dropping into a big black hole.
I could come up with something better than that!
Like, zero idea.
Well, either this.
Either, like, they're never even sending them in the first place, or some cagey double-entry accounting thing's happening.
That's, obviously, allegedly.
Allegedly, yep.
Or they're stockpiling them somewhere or they are being picked up by organisations that's mad bogus terror organisations.
That's better than nothing.
They're probably not true but I'm guessing.
I guess the issue is that if there's no mechanism for where they go.
What's the point in doing it?
And what we're being told is we're spending all this money to help Ukraine.
There is a disconnect there, isn't there?
Yeah.
And what it suggests is, are you actually sending them with the idea of them helping Ukraine, or is there something else at play here?
And I think that's when you get into a headline like former NATO advisor says the UK and US sabotage peace deal, it starts to create a kind of narrative.
We sabotage that.
All you want, really, is for people to sort of tell the truth a bit.
Let's just focus not on the government, not on the military-industrial complex.
Let's focus instead on the media.
Wouldn't it be nice?
If I just said 70% of this aid, this lethal aid as Biden called it, ain't gonna make it to the front line.
We don't know where it's going.
We've got zero idea and we delayed peace talks for reasons that we're not willing to be disclosed.
Wouldn't it be nice?
It would also be nice to talk to Aaron Maté from the Grey Zone, who will, uh... Yeah, you're happy about that.
Very good.
That's an old school link, isn't it?
Very good.
We cut our teeth in old school telly, didn't we, Gal?
We know that's a good link.
I saw you nod approvingly there.
I did, I was.
Like I did a nice pass.
That's right.
Like a through ball.
That's it.
Ooh, that was good.
Yeah.
Uh, Aaron Maté, but I had to post-modern it, didn't I?
That's fine.
I had to get all meta.
That's fine.
I had to get, you gotta get meta.
No point taking life seriously.
This is it.
Just a few seconds.
Metaverse or just meta?
I'm not going into that metaverse.
I've seen what goes on in there.
It's disgusting.
Mainly shopping.
Shopping, of course it is.
It'll just be shopping and lying and wanking like everything else.
Anyway, let's have a look what Aaron Maté's got to say.
He's from the grey zone.
He, in my opinion, is a brilliant journalist.
Check him out.
Aaron, did the US and UK deliberately sabotage peace deals to keep the war in Ukraine going?
And if that's true, and there is evidence to suggest that it is, why would they do that?
It's true according to multiple sources.
The first hint of this came actually from sources close to Zelensky, who told a Ukrainian media outlet in May That after Russia and Ukrainian negotiators reached a tentative deal to end the war, Boris Johnson came over from the UK, and there's no doubt he was acting at the behest of the US, because the UK is a lackey of the US when it comes to foreign policy, and told Zelensky that, sorry, we're not going to back you up if you make a deal with Putin, and it's not the time to negotiate with Putin, it's a time to fight him.
So that killed those talks, and since then, Putin has said a similar thing.
He accused the US of wrecking a peace agreement. And Fiona Hill, who's a former White
House Russia expert, also said that U.S.
officials knew that there was a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine reached. So that's
the evidence for it. And why they would want to kill peace is because, look, their goal is not
to defend Ukraine. As Lloyd Austin, the defense secretary, said, their goal is to weaken Russia,
to use Ukraine to bleed Russia, which has been a longtime goal of the U.S.
And that's been made clear over and over.
Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator, recently said that as long as we arm Ukraine, they will fight to the last person.
So from Washington's point of view, Ukraine is not something to be defended.
It's something to be used as cannon fodder against Russia.
Aside from the moment where you said that the UK was the lackey of the United States, I found little to disagree with in your argument, but I've still been well enough conditioned to feel a kind of flush of patriotic rage pass through my body.
Aaron, has six years of propaganda nudged us culturally into believing that it's futile to negotiate with Putin and Russia.
And is it futile?
Is there any indication that there is a diplomatic solution available that would be generally amenable?
It's definitely ridiculous to believe that there's no chance of negotiating with Russia when you have all these sources saying that there was a deal reached and there's no reason why that can't be tried again.
And yes, the last many years of propaganda where we've been told in the U.S.
that Russia is basically responsible for all of our problems, Hillary Clinton, Concocted a conspiracy theory that Trump was a Russian asset, and then when she lost the election, blamed Russia for her loss instead of doing any real self-reflection.
We've also seen Russia blamed for Hunter Biden's laptop.
We've seen Kamala Harris say that Russia was responsible for the Colin Kaepernick controversy when he refused to stand for the national anthem.
We've seen Russia blamed for Black Lives Matter protests.
There's nothing They can't be laid at the Kremlin's doorstep by the Democratic Party or at least by the leaders of the Democratic Party.
And so in that context, Russia is portrayed as this demonic existential threat that we can't negotiate with.
If Russia's so bloody good, might as well let them be in charge.
If they are doing all that stuff.
Not sure that was the message.
Oh, sorry, I got confused.
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Here, want to do live chats where you can ask questions to Jocko Willink, former Navy SEAL, tough geezer, who I'm going to ask.
I'll tell you, Gal, I'll ask him.
Mate, this is how I'm going to do it.
You be Jocko Willink, I'll be me.
Jocko... No, can I be Jocko?
No, you be Jocko Willink.
He's quite tough.
He's a tough guy, he's a tough guy.
He's got an iron jaw.
He's not someone you want to start on, Jocko Willink.
You know Jocko Willink.
Tell me in the chat, you know Jocko Willink.
I'm going to go, Jocko, when you was a Navy... That's what I'm going to say.
Jocko... I'm going to elongate the O, subtly, so he thinks I'm... That's how my name's normally said.
Jocko... Could you not elongate the O?
Sorry, Jocko.
Jocko, sorry, mate.
I don't know why I've done that.
Jocko, you're a Navy SEAL.
Could you have sabotaged that, um... No, actually, I'm not going to do that.
I've just seen him again, and I've realised... I'm scared of even that image, because that's how I feel.
If he'd done that at me then, I'd be like, fuck it.
Sorry, mate.
Sorry, Jocko.
No, I didn't even like that.
Make it even shorter.
Jocko.
Um, Jocko.
Jocko.
Jocko, could you, when you were a Navy SEAL, have sabotaged that pipeline?
Sure, of course I could.
I was a Navy SEAL.
I'd been down there in a SEAL.
Bam!
Smash it.
Sabotage it.
Right.
Thanks, Jocko.
Do you reckon they did do that?
Do you reckon they did?
Like that?
Hang on, am I playing him or not?
You just played him.
Well, I hope you weren't like this.
I was scared!
You weren't like this when Nick Cage were, yeah?
Yeah.
I had to embody him because I was scared.
I thought, hold on, the only way to stop my fear is to bring him in.
Incorporate him.
If he's outside of me, he's a threat.
He's a menace.
Bring him in.
Bring him on home, Pappy.
Bring him on... He better not be fucking watching this!
Jocko, I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to you.
I applaud the Navy Seals.
Hell Week, that's their toughest week when they're training to be a Navy Seal.
That's not going to impress him, just knowing that.
Shit, it's not going to be enough, is it?
That's not enough?
He's going to need more than that?
That's his expression now, watching this.
Trying to impress me by memorising Hell Week?
Sorry, Jocko.
Sorry, I shouldn't have done that.
Diminishing the achievements of the Seals?
No!
No!
Shit!
This isn't where I wanted this to go, Jocko!
Have a free jacket.
Jocko!
Do you want this?
No, I don't!
A bitten man's jacket?
You think I'm trash?
No!
No!
Seems like maybe the candle will set light to the American flag.
Oh!
What the fuck?
Oh, glory!
No, Jocko!
What do you mean?
Are you coming on to me?
No!
No!
Jocko!
Jocko.
As a Navy SEAL, could you have done that pipeline in, done it in with an explosion, and do you think that's the sort of thing they might have done in the government, you know?
Just do it like that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you think he's gonna tell us, or will he say something diplomatic?
Uh, no, I think he'll tell us.
Yeah, alright.
Well, if you want to see all that happen, join Stay For AF, then you can join it live.
We'll play it out next Tuesday.
Of course, will it be Tuesday?
We don't know when it'll be.
Follow him.
I'm gonna follow one.
Not next week, week after that.
In a fortnight.
That's right, that's how we talk in England.
Alright, Nicolas Cage.
Topic.
Coins says, Coins1 on the chat there goes, I was at a table sat next to Nicolas Cage and he left a huge heap of pizza crust.
Insane?
Question mark?
Some people don't eat the crust though, do they?
No, they don't.
Do you eat it?
Always.
With a garlicky dip?
They don't often come with a garlicky dip.
Well, where are you eating your pizzas, mate?
Authentic Italian restaurants.
You, you snob!
You think you're better than us?
Two laptops, authentic Italian pizzas.
I'm eating pizza from Domino's in the street!
Next to a prisoner!
Identifying with him!
Here, mate, the meth's in the pumpkin patch.
That's what I'm doing!
While you're sat there having your authentic pizzas.
Yeah, we will, Bill.
We will do it live.
There's nothing to worry about.
It's OK.
Listen, if you want to do all that sort of stuff with us, you know, join us and everything, have a look at the sort of shit that go down.
Next week, we've got Vandana Shiva on.
Here's us talking to her last week.
Some people from the chat, they were there just asking her questions.
Check it out.
Look at this.
Look, look, look with your eyes.
Ask yourself.
Riley underscore yoga asks, at Community Festival, you encouraged us to take part in World Food Day on the 16th of October.
Any top tips on how to do this?
I would suggest to all of you, you know, either start a garden or have a picnic with your community.
Create community around food.
Food is community.
Food is the embodiment of the community from the soil, the community of the insects and the pollinators, the community of the people who took care of the land.
But begin a food community and have a party.
You know, bake your bread.
It starts with you, your values, your family, simple things you can do.
You can reclaim power in your own life.
It doesn't have to get all complicated, does it?
Simple. Separate yourself.
What I've heard and what I've begun to understand is that it's not like you have to attack and destroy the
establishment, although criticizing it and ridiculing it, in my view, is
necessary.
You begin to form your own systems and it will atrophy away.
It will atrophy away.
Ignore it.
It will go away.
Start to form your own communities, your own currencies.
Declare yourself independent.
Declare yourself independent from this system.
Liberate yourself from this illusion, primarily the illusion that you can achieve anything by grabbing stuff from the outside world.
Don't be all mouth and hands.
There's no answer in that direction.
Was there something else I was going to show people?
There was something else, wasn't it?
Jocko!
What it was, was, uh, is it...
Me doing impressions of Dick Cheney.
What is that?
It was Stay Free Media activity.
Have a look.
See, if you want to join us on Stay Free AF, you bloody well should.
Have a look at the sort of stuff that goes on.
This is like, not only can you win a Lelo jacket that I've already promised to Jocko, you can see stuff like this go down.
In a minute it goes proper berserk because it's not that many people.
If you're a journalist trying to write something to bring us down, I know you do this.
I know you do it.
I know you're doing it it for your own reasons. Oh, sign up or what, you'll say
something irresponsible. He said the thing that's irresponsible there is irresponsible. Type
that out. Type that out. I went to university and everything. Hopefully this isn't a waste of time what I'm
doing here. Hopefully I've not just been sucked into the establishment. Oh my god,
hold on a minute. Everything I'm believing and thinking is in support of the centralised
power. Oh no, all of my ideals, all of my dreams. There's not even a computer there because
Gareth's got all the fucking laptops. Have a look at what goes on at State Free AF.
There's never been an individual who's a greater threat to our republic. There's never been
a greater threat. Hey, that's him trying to be nice. Oh, I see you Sonny Tim. Hey, I heard
what you said about me.
I like that.
That's the sort of thing that goes on.
So you can join us if you want.
So anyway, I think you'll find that what we've done there is a perfectly good show.
We answered a lot of questions about the nature of power, didn't we?
Is Trump really a fascist?
We've been reading your comments.
You love Trump.
Why wouldn't you?
I know you come from a place of purity and absolute beauty.
So we said that whoever is speaking in the interest of peace, we're on them side, innit, Gal?
You got distracted by something on the end of your finger.
I don't know what it is, mate.
First I thought it was an eyelash, but then I've realised it's probably just a bit of pen.
I thought, hang on!
Eyelash!
Wish!
Wish opportunity!
Wish opportunity!
Never miss a wish!
Birthday cake wish!
Eyelash wish!
Them things!
Dandelions!
Oh, it's one of his superstitions.
Is that wrong with my superstitions?
Oh, no.
Stop blowing that finger!
Sorry, Jocko.
Jocko?
Jocko, could you have destroyed that?
Anyway, if you want to join me and Jocko Willink for what promises to be rather an awkward and embarrassing chat filled with unreciprocated sexual tension, it's going to happen on Tuesday live.
We'll let you know over on Stay Free AF.
So join up to Stay Free AF now.
You're just from a long line of people who don't understand technology.
I can't make it come my smart TV.
Why can't I make it come my smart TV?
I don't fucking know.
You see me trying to use my phone, I don't know how to do it, Dad.
Just watch this bit on the telly, then move over to your phone, just like that.
Two screen generation, that's what everyone's like now, isn't it, Subi?
Everyone's got two screens.
That's what everyone's doing, they're watching that on that screen.
You're just from a long line of people who don't understand technology.
Yeah, I like it. A long line of Luddites.
Oh, dear!
How can I use this rake to rake leaves?
It's confusing!
Just pull them in with your hands!
It's like, yeah, well, this windmill's baffling me!
But, yeah, even really antiquated things, like a monkey trying to use a rock or something to smash over the coconut.
My monkey ancestors would just chuck nine on it and that.
That's it.
Right back to the dawn of time.
Like little amoebas.
I can't self-subdivide.
Just stay as one cell.
It'll be fine.
I'm coming from the quantum field.
Just stay within the limitless quantum field.
What's the point of evolving into a material field if individualism is just going to separate you from the great reality?
Good point, little amoeba.
Good bloody point.
Okay, join us at Stay Free AF.
We're going to let... It's going to be right off the hook.
It's going to be right off the hook, isn't it, Gal?
Absolutely.
Anything could happen, could it?
Could it?
Could it?
I just noticed that someone called me a tech fascist and I don't really know what they mean.
Don't get distracted by that!
Don't get distracted.
Well, no gloves.
Maybe it's real love.
Bonnie Boo, what the fuck are you lot talking about?
The chat's already going.
Get over to Stay Free AF.
Next week, Vandana Shiva, Jocko Willink, us talking about Biden's cannabis partner and how it's basically a blag.
Come stay with Stay Free AF.
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See you next week.
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